While the Danish media were using expressions throughout the day such as ‘researchers doing back flips of excitement’ and ‘the world’s ultimate…

ISA and CSS get a new EAN number as of 20 August 2012.

The EAN number for IFA is unchanged.

New AU HR Course overview

From the end of August to mid-September, the IT systems that Aarhus University uses for financial management will be converted-

As of 1 June 2012, Lars Bojer Madsen has been appointed Professor of theoretical atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics.

“Summer holidays? No thank you,” say the teenagers attending the UNF Physics Camp at Aarhus University from 15 to 21 July, where they are taking part…

The opening of the Stellar Astrophysics Centre at Aarhus University puts us in the midst of an exciting period for space research. Technological…

The Physics and Astronomy Library and the Steno Library have now moved in to newly-restored surroundings in building 1520, 4.

Søren Ulstrup, Ph.D. student from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, obtains award for best talk at Carbonhagen 2012

Two students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, shared the poster prize at the annual meeting of Danish Physical…

Jeff Hangst has been appointed professor with special responsibilities in “creation of antimatter and spectroscopic…

In collaboration with NASA and other astronomers all over the world, astronomers at Aarhus University have discovered a planet system consisting of…

About 200 astronomy enthusiasts saw the transit of Venus across the Sun on Wednesday morning at Moesgaard Beach. The Department of Physics and…

The construction of the ASTRID2 accelerator has now been completed and the

commissioning has started. The first half turn in the ring took place on …

Hanne Andersen has been appointed professor with special responsibilities as leader of the Centre for Science Studies at the Department of Physics and…

It was not thought to be possible, but now it has happened. A group of physicists has managed to get an ultracold gas consisting of lithium and…

A piece of Denmark’s technological history is in the making in the basement below the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In the time ahead, you can…

Britta Johansen has received an award for best poster presentation at the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting's …

For staff and PhD students at Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Geoscience

Danish Physical Society Annual Meeting 19-20 June 2012 at Hotel Nyborg Strand

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University invites applications for 10-15 grants, each covering a 3 or 6 months preparation period…

The World Cultural Council’s special recognition is granted to talented researchers who early in their careers have had international impact through…

As of 1 January 2012, Sune Nørhøj Jespersen has been employed as associate professor in a position divided between Science and Technology and Health.

A physicist from Aarhus University and an international team of researchers at CERN have taken yet another step towards solving the antimatter…

How long does it take an electron to form a photon? The answer would normally be: so short a time that it cannot be measured. However, the…

The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation has awarded a grant of DKK 288,000 (approximately EUR 39,000) to physicist Nikolaj Thomas…

He compares quantum computers with bridal bouquets, and wave functions with violin strings. Professor Klaus Mølmer is a popular communicator and top…

The Award for International Scientific Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the highest award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),…

Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Hans Kjeldsen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been selected by the Danish journal Ingeniøren (The…

The Carlsberg Foundation has granted DKK 3.3 million (approximately EUR 450,000) to Associate Professor Jeffrey Hangst, Aarhus University, to purchase…

On 14 December, Dean Brian Bech Nielsen, Science and Technology, and Head of Department Lars H. Andersen, Physics and Astronomy, conferred a doctorate…

Astronomers at Aarhus University have studied the interiors of giant stars and can ascertain that they behave quite differently from the Sun.

Among the three best candidates for the Danish Research Results of the Year 2011, Videnskab.dk selected Jacob Friis Sherson, Department of Physics and…

In quantum mechanics, particles can travel through areas that are forbidden according to classical physics, a phenomenon called tunnelling.…

Afstemning på videnskab.dk: Hvem har skabt det flotteste forskningsresultat i Danmark i år?

With a grant of DKK 10 million (approximately EUR 1.3 million) from the Lundbeck Foundation, the talented young German physicist Jan Arlt can set up…

Jacob Friis Sherson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, has contributed to an article featuring his atom tweezers in the popular online tech…

Research groups at Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, and Aarhus University are the first to succeed in identifying the geometry and interaction…

Portrait of Lars Andersen, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy

Stars that pulsate by alternately expanding and contracting again have been somewhat of a mystery for astronomers. It now appears that the Sun can be…

Entangled atoms for interferometry. Atoms, the building blocks of nature, can be used as extremely precise measurement devices. Since the 1960s, for…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe – knowledge that astronomers at Aarhus…

The Danish National Research Foundation has granted a new Center of Excellence. Professor Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard has been awarded DKK 55 million…

We are affected by everything experienced by other people because our brains are linked together in a large network. Such is the theory behind a…

Researchers at the Department of Physics and Astronomy have finally solved an old problem in quantum physics about when certain atoms and molecules…